Hints and tips:
...After each ride we return to camp covered in a film of dust to find warm water in washstands and beers that have been chilled in the jeep’s portable fridge....
...In extreme conditions, even treated areas can burn again, and the wind can carry fires kilometres ahead to untreated areas....
...Since this is an area of seaside resorts and holiday parks only 25 miles or so from Glasgow, it posed a stiff challenge to the Survival Adventure concept....
...All around the lake were rock walls, on one side topped with the gleaming white glacier from which the water surrounding us had melted....
...Despite this, he’s mostly in the behavioural camp....
...As is often the case, we camp beside the river, washing pans in it and filtering the water for drinking next morning....
...Toronto, with its sparkling waterfront, leafy neighbourhoods and hidden ravines, is the perfect city for a runner who would rather be an explorer than a hamster on a wheel....
...The place has a social as well as an environmental ethos: at the bottom of the hill is its partner Dynamo Camp, one of Europe’s leading recreational therapy centres for sick children....
...Other areas of Microsoft’s business, such as its Azure cloud service, have had a quieter ascent....
...“Every one of these [tech] companies knows gaming is going to be a growth area, and it ties into their metaverse ambitions more broadly.”...
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...As the sun began to go down, the alpenglow setting alight the spectacular Cirque of the Towers, Jess cast her line into the calm waters of Billy’s Lake, beside our first camp....
...Jack’s has leased a communal grazing area and hired people to protect it....
...South Uist has the largest area of machair in the British Isles....
...Chiang Rai is among Thailand's most glorious provinces, with its rolling hills, forests, elephant camps, sparkling waters and top-quality farm produce....
...(FT) Water cooler wars The world is divided over the future of work — one camp is in line with Jack Dorsey’s declaration that Twitter would operate remotely “forever” and another mourning their cubicles...
...However, tiny homes on wheels do not qualify, nor do city codes account for them....
...I couldn’t manoeuvre into an embarrassingly large parking spot at a waterfall in the Upper Peninsula, so he and his wife talked me through it, dictating every turn of the wheel until I was parked....
...Instead we’d plotted a more or less circular route — unless you’re prepared to camp, it will probably be determined to some extent by where you can find to stay, as the area’s few lodges and refugios are...
...He points out tracks: “Kangaroos show you where there’s water, emus show you where there’s food.”...
...The area is now a magnet for visitors and employs 60 locals as park guides....
...Additional reporting by Hannah Kuchler and Richard Waters...
...Daimler already has apps in each of these areas, with car2go, mytaxi and moovel....
...The company confirms its emergency plan with suppliers and buys generators, refrigerated trucks, recreational vehicles and portable toilets....
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